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title: But they answered the call from habit; and some of them were lame fr… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But they answered the call from habit; and some of them were lame from the traps they had fallen into, and some limped from shot wounds, and some were mangy from eating bad food, and many were missing. Who acts: feet, some, many. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, p
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 10, sentence 5

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But they answered the call from habit; and some of them were lame from the traps they had fallen into, and some limped from shot wounds, and some were mangy from eating bad food, and many were missing.

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**Who acts:** feet, some, many · **What happens:** answer, be, fall, limp, eat · **To what, where:** call, habit, traps, some, shot wounds, bad food

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet, some, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg236:10:5
# text = But they answered the call from habit; and some of them were lame from the traps they had fallen into, and some limped from shot wounds, and some were mangy from eating bad food, and many were missing.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	lame	lame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	traps	trap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	limped	limp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	shot	shot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	nsubj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	mangy	mangy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
34	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
36	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	nsubj	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | feet *= foot* | the call |  | habit |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | some |  |  | the traps |  | lame *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** | past · perfect | feet *= foot* | the traps *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient trap=Result |
| 4 | **limp** | participle · passive |  | some |  | shot wounds |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | some |  |  |  |  | mangy *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **eat** | gerund | some *not said here* | bad food |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 7 | **is** | past | many |  |  |  |  | missing *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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